Description
The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the Caribbean. Using sixteenth-century sources, the distinguished French writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov examines the beliefs and behavior of the Spanish conquistadors and of the Aztecs, adversaries in a clash of cultures that resulted in the near extermination of Mesoamerica's Indian population.
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 06/22/2020
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780806131375
ISBN10: 0806131373
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)
- History | Indigenous Peoples of the Americas